[Bug 865013] Re: Ship Ubuntu Mono as default monospace font in Ubuntu 11.10

[Mark Shuttleworth]

Ack ScottK's concerns about the impact on derivatives.

I think it would be safe to transition the GNOME monospace default to
the Ubuntu Mono. Paul's answered questions on glyph and language
coverage, the gsettings approach would be specific to Ubuntu rather than
*buntu, and the doc team are happy that there is no material impact on
them. Fallback would be as per existing fonts so no glyphs would be lost
or harmed in the production of this movie.

So, would ask the release team to consider the change in gsettings for
Gnome apps only.

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Title:
  Ship Ubuntu Mono as default monospace font in Ubuntu 11.10

Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “ubuntu-artwork” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “ubuntu-font-family-sources” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Counterpart to bug #861334 ("Ship Ubuntu Mono .psf as default console
  font in Ubuntu 11.10"), but easier to implement.

  Mark Shuttleworth has requested that Ubuntu Mono Reguloar be used as
  the default monospace font for console use in Ubuntu 11.10.

  Hard Freeze was 72 hours ago.  This would require:

    1. Upstream release of Ubuntu Font Family 0.80.  DONE.
    2. Distro upload of Ubutu Font Family 0.80 minus Medium for oneiric.  DONE.
    3. Bumping "Ubuntu Mono" to first preference in 'fontconfig-config' package.

  This can be done in the files:

    /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf

  although Droid Sans has another interesting approach in:

       /etc/fonts/conf.d/60-ttf-droid-sans-mono-fonts.conf

  which could be tested.

  I have run this past a member of the Ubuntu Doc team, who are happy
  with it, noting that none of the documentation screenshots cover
  monospace fonts.  If there is a case, to the untrained eye one
  monospace is much like another and textual descriptions would be
  unaffected.

  The only potentional outcome that could do with further investigation
  is how to increase the default font size by ~12% to compensate for
  Ubuntu Mono following Inconsolata's metrics, rather than DejaVu Sans
  Mono's metric (the present default).

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